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W10/1709, A crash, boot into NEW desktop...?

Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:55 pm

1950X cpu, W10/1709.
Doing a lot testing OCing/volt dropping/crashing etc.

On a reboot I came back to a brand new default desktop.
My old desktop was still on the disk but W10 was not using it.
I opened the programs I needed and went on testing.

Next reboot and the old correct desktop with all my files was back.

Sadly I know W7/64 has to go but it is so much more stable.
Never pulls this kind of bleep. Boots in half the time. 34 sec vs 64 sec.
But W10 does use more of the cores when encoding...16% faster (fps) then W7.

Basically is there some way to make W10 use a certain "desktop" instead of just
hoping that on the next boot that W10 will fix itself.

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Re: W10/1709, A crash, boot into NEW desktop...?

Sun Apr 08, 2018 2:13 pm

If you're overclocking / overvolting it's quite possible you're getting data corruption prior to the crash, which could affect things that are written/updated during boot like your profile, the icon cache, etc. Creating those conditions could've had similar results from Windows 7 (or XP or whatever).

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Re: W10/1709, A crash, boot into NEW desktop...?

Sun Apr 08, 2018 2:39 pm

Doing a lot testing OCing/volt dropping/crashing etc.

I found the problem.
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Re: W10/1709, A crash, boot into NEW desktop...?

Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:59 am

UberGerbil wrote:
If you're overclocking / overvolting it's quite possible you're getting data corruption prior to the crash, which could affect things that are written/updated during boot like your profile, the icon cache, etc. Creating those conditions could've had similar results from Windows 7 (or XP or whatever).


Undervolting... but I see what you are saying, unstable is unstable.

I dual boot W7/64 and W10 and it's W10 that is the problem child.
Think I may put in a new boot disk and just install W10 clean and see
how that goes, stability wise.

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Re: W10/1709, A crash, boot into NEW desktop...?

Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:41 am

Yup. Sounds like something in your user area is getting corrupted or left in a bad state when the system crashes. Not sure why it takes two reboots to get it back to normal, but the way to deal with this is to prevent the crash and corruption from occurring in the first place. If your system is unstable, you need to treat the underlying cause of the instability. Otherwise, all you're really doing is playing whack-a-mole with the symptoms of collateral damage from the crash.
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